Buddhist Tourism in Asia
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Buddhist Tourism in Asia

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Buddhist Tourism in Asia

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Editor’s Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Theoretical Landscapes of Buddhist Tourism in Asia
  5. PART I. Buddhist Imaginaries and Place-Making
  6. CHAPTER ONE. Peace and the Buddhist Imaginary in Bodh Gaya, India
  7. CHAPTER TWO. Imaginaries of Buddhist Fantasy Worlds in Southeast Asia: The Decline of Tiger Balm Gardens of Singapore in Comparative Perspective
  8. CHAPTER THREE. Loss and Promise: The Buddhist Temple as Tourist Space in Thailand
  9. CHAPTER FOUR. Marketing Maitreya: Two Peaks, Three Forms of Capital, and the Quest to Establish a Fifth Buddhist Mountain
  10. PART II. Secularizing the Sacred
  11. CHAPTER FIVE. Cambodian Pilgrimage Groups in India and Sri Lanka
  12. CHAPTER SIX. Buddhists, Bones, and Bats: Thematic Tourism and the Symbolic Economy of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Taking Tourism into Their Own Hands: Monastic Communities and Temple Transformations in China
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Turning to Tourism in a Time of Crisis? Buddhist Temples and Pilgrimage Promotion in Secular(ized) Japan
  15. PART III. Commodification and Its Consequences
  16. CHAPTER NINE. Interrogating Religious Tourism at Buddhist Monasteries in China
  17. CHAPTER TEN. How I Meditated with Your Mother: Speed Dating at Temples and Shrines in Contemporary Japan
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Buddhism: A Unique Selling Proposition (USP) in Ladakh
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index